Vändra
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Vändra ( ) is a borough ( ) in Põhja-Pärnumaa Parish in Pärnu County, Estonia.
Vändra ( ) is a borough ( ) in Põhja-Pärnumaa Parish in Pärnu County, Estonia. ==Notable people== Johann Voldemar Jannsen (1819–1890), journalist and poet, an early figure of the Estonian national awakening Karl von Ditmar (1822–1892), Baltic German geologist and explorer, went to Kamchatka Lydia Koidula (1843–1886), poet, became Estonia's national poet Mihkel Lüdig (1880–1958), composer, organist and choir conductor. Anton Õunapuu (1887–1919), teacher, soldier and founder of the local Boy Scouts movement Ain-Ervin Mere (1905–1969), military officer implicated in the Holocaust trials in Soviet Estonia Artur Lind (1927–1989), biologist, founded molecular biology in Estonia. Alar Laneman (born 19621), politician, Ministry of the Interior, 2020 to 2021 Agnes Oaks (born 1970), ballet dancer, principal dancer with English National Ballet, from 1990 Andres Metsoja (born 1978), politician, Pärnu County Governor, 2010 to 2015 ==References==
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